The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-28 00:00:00

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The PETIT BLONDIN, the juvenile Rope dancer ; Air JACKSON HAINES, the Champion American SKATE-R; B ILVESTER, the Charmed 3lonster, &e. ; the ELLISTRA BROTHERS, the classical gymnasts ; BARNES, the CHAMPION, VAULTE ft in his sixty somersaults ; JEAN BOND and his wonderful DOG ; fIIERR IVILLIO, the great German Contortionist. J. 11. STEAD, the Cure. Atost amusing CLOWNS. Pantomimic BALLET, with Mr. STEAL) as SIMPKIN, forming an unparalleled variety of Holiday Amusements. In addition to these, the FINE ARTS COURTS, in variety • and beauty. are unequalled in the world. The decorations of the Palace, with the GREAT CHRISTMAS TREE, should be seen by all. The GREAT FAIR and BAZ AAR, the best 9pportunity for Christmas P, esents. The SHAKSPERE OUSE. The MONTANARI MODELS. The Swings, Round-abouts, Invigorators, and other popular 'amusements. The Galleries of MODELS and SHIPS. The extraordinary Chimpanzee. The unique Aqusriums. All these things render the Crystal Palace the ONE PLACE for HOLIDAY ENJOYMENT. This Christmas, EDMONDS' late Wombwell's) WIND SOR CASTLE GREAT MENAGERIE will he exhibited, adjoining the Palace. This extraordinary addition to the Other attractions is, like the Palace and its approaches, all tinder cover. Admission to the Menagerie, Sixpence. Admission to the Palace. One Shilling. One Hundred and Fifty Railway Trains daily, from London Bridge, Victoria, I anti Kensington ; also from London, Chatham, and Dover to Sydeitham Hill Station. Palace lighted up at dusk. Won derfully beautiful effect. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT SUCCESS YESTE DAY.—Every hoVday maker, every juvenile, must visit the Palace for the Thousand-and-One Attractions combined there this week. Come early. Open at Ten. Palace lighted up at dusk. THE PALACE at NIGHT.—" If this lighting up, and this alone, were shown as at the Christmas attraction, it would be worth a j m o ney to Norwooi to see it. We cm only cordially recommend our readers to see it for themselves before the week is out "—Vide Newspapers. CRYSTAL PALACE. -TO - MORROW. - Attraction Extraordinary during the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. The Entire of EDMONDY (late Wombwell's ROYAL WINDSOR CASTLE MENAGERIE, the most extensive and valuable Zoological Establishment in Europe. Entrance from the Tropical Department. Warm, dry, and every comfort studied to render it one of the most agreeable La welt as plea ring resorts in or o,(t of London. The RIVAL LION-HUNTERS, in heir daring and exc tint illustrations every alternate hour, with two separate groups of highly trained lions, lionesses, and tigers ; together with a Magnifi cent stud of perferming panthers and leopards,, surpassing everything hitherto submitted for public inspection. Two huge educated elephants, male and female, the largest in the country. The only Indian male rhinoceros travelling. The Menagerie comprises some very rare specimens of the animal kin_;dorn, among which recently imported those wvnderful , creatures toe Hamattryads, or Lion Slayers, are very singu:' lar, and the only ones ever brought to th s country. Noble Royal Bengal Tigers and Tigresses. Majestic African, Asiatie, Barbary, and British-bred Lions and Lionesses, with Baby Lions, whelped at Windsor in November last. Llamas, Alpacas. A pair of Burche 1 Zebras ; two very fine I'olar Bears, Nyl tihaus, Zebras, or Sacred Bulls, black ursine Sloth Be rs. Hyenas Wolv, s, Jackalls, &c,, &c. War Camels, and Dromedaries, with infant Calf ten months old. A splen did Aviary of Foreign Birds. from every clime. Monkeys from all parts of the globe. The Reptiles are profuse, and in great,variet y. O A en at 10 daily. Admission to the ffenagerle, Gd etch. CRYSTAL PALACE -SATURDAY NEXT. SATURDAY CONCERT and AFTERNOON PRO 111,1NADE.—Madame GRISI'S last and only appearance.— Half-a-Crown reserved stalls, at the Crystal Palace, and at 6, Exeter Hall. Being very limited in number, they must be applied for at once. COMMODORE NUTT & MINNIE WARREN. ST. JAMES'S HAIL, Piccadilly.— BOXING-DAY and during the HO LIDAYS.—THR EE GRAND LEVEES DAILY, at Eleven and Eight o'clock. "Na ure's Smallest Edition of her choicest work"—a Ilachelor and Belle of mature age, not larger than Two Infants ! ! At Eleven o'clock they appear in the identical WEDDING COSTUME worn by them at the Marriage of GEN. TOM TIIUMI3; and they also perform'Songs, Duets, Dances, &c., giving. several Comic personations, with an entire change of Programme at each Levee. They will he drawn to and from St. James's Hall in their Lilliputian Carriage by four of the Smallest Ponies in the World, presented to them by General Tom Thumb; - - Box (,ffie from 10 till 4 o'clock. Admission, ls. and 25.: reserved seats, 3s. Children hall Price to the 2s. and 3s. seats• 1 11 HE WORLD of WONDERS b y th e WIZARD IL of the NORTE-I.AT ATTRACTION for the 110E11'S, GREAT S R T. J E AIIES'.i lIALL, every night at 8, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday afternoons at 3. The Second• Sight by MiA• Anderson, also thf , Great Rope tying Mystery by Miss Lizzie Anderson and Mr. Sutton. Admission, Is. ; balcony, 2s. ; stalls, 3s. Ip-R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. IL JOHN PARRY, in THE RIVAL COMPOSERS Which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARDand II IS BIRTHDAY; and to cone tide with Mltc;. ROSELEAF 11'1"1' Il E SEA-Si DE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except. Saturday) at Eight ; Saturday Atternoon, at Three. --,IIOYAL GALLERY UP' ILLUST lIA cIoN, 11, Reqent strew. Unreserved seats, ls., ; stalls , Is. ; stall spring Chairs, OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY , b y ~., v iaelarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenb ac h. E very TUE -DAY and 1' EIURSDAY, at Three. 111 IE 0 X FORD, e:, OXFORD sTT EE T, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Tl4ll Company (limited. ORPH NE AUX ENFERs (01T , nliaeli's brilliant Opera Uoinique), is achitvimr, an unprecedented success. Vide, the "Kin , if Bocotia ;" " Ilymn 'to Bacchus ;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, Eurydfre, Diana, Cupid, and horns ; the side-splitJnz "Couplets," by Minerva, biana Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; a , d and O' , ilop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Lareelles. Also, the new Cantata, KING CHRISTM AS, written by Litchtllosely, Esq , and composed by Herr Meyer Lutz, eX"pressly for this es' a .lishmunt. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. ;.......2BE,DEsCENT_OLair.,I3.CLIRIC, by nv- Jag. fretii,tt LE MONSTIttiI CHARME, by M. SILVESTRE. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of the day. VANTERBURY HALL. V The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). lIODGE PODGE, the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon don (inclui.ng the whole strength of the establishment), should be seen to be appreciated. The usual Operatic Selection s by Mi sses R ussell, Barrie, trays, Godden, &c.; Messrs. Lanelles, llarland, Beaumont, lYinaberley, &c. Musical Director, 3E% F. Jonghmans. Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton, Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, &c. Every evening at 7 o'clock. It 0 YAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus`. Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS UP TO CHRISTMAS. Operatic Selections, &c. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. The Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE ;#I.I.DAMS, NE LLY POWER, J. G. FORDE, WEST, GEO. !•EYBOURNE, Mr. HERBERT, J. F. ALEXANDER and gamily; LES FRERES CAVALLINI, the great Italian t'lowns and Gymnasts, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, their first appearance in England. Permanent prices—Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d..; stalls, ls. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GRE VILLE. N RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windraill-street, Piccadilly. 4 , LE VY will appear at nine, ten, an d e l even o ' clock during "le week and play new music nightly. Admission, One Shilling. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, established 29 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street NEW ADDITION.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL of MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast Ilensi by ognomy. Doctor Donovan, is now added to the Chamber of hy Open, on -tillay only, from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m,; other M ' 1 •3 7 8 from II a.m. 5 p m., and from 7 ill 10. BUSINESSES. -Mr. ANDREW HIND'S NO VEMBE it LIST, Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &e., Gratis. Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free. OFFICES—CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S. TEIGNMOUT H, Dpvon —Mr. ANDREW H y!) has received instructions to SELL a Gentle man's RESIDENCE, with grounds of about 3 acres. The hose.lB- ple.efue4r-eituato cantinas dining, two ttrawing rooms, nine 1 ed-rooms, three dressing-room., library, house keeper's rcom and offices, conservatory, garden, three-stall stable, two coach-houses, &c. It stands on high Ark ound, and the views from it are good. Distance from the sea about a mile. Price £2,6 oo, —Particulars and cards to view at the City Central Estate Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. Admittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence. TEETH.- IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTIS PRY.— Professional abilities and treat artistic ekill have been most successfully combined in the pro'luction ARTIFICIAL, T MET upon a new principle. e xper tl able of' the pe r ot the art of Dentistry will b ced by all wishing* to avail themselves of professional !stance by ccnsulting Mr. AL BERT, 34, Great Russell sect 13loomsbury, whose experience has enabled him to means, such admirable, convenient contrivances by ar tifi c i a l `geans, and which a re so perfectly efficient. rti EETH —lklr. ESKELL'S PATENT,—The u ( s ; ;E r v o e . sv r e igi r t . s t t o ree ti t iis Patent was F ecure d to Mr. PgIcell " o c ; a s vnedncoarlis onlyutr e i; e procuredby li e r la a - t I!.M'y's Royal Seal (July 17, 18e0), and ~..' g residence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor -Iqt ttion can be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, ') last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without t aln or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect H'ender gums ; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un . 4e tectable, and they are guaranteed for masticati cm and t" t iculatiou. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. i, -11 sultations free. OPINIONS or THE PRESS. 'Arr. leskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing nfictal teeth, andth , so constructiag them that they last their r,,, li rPose a lifetime. . . . The process has.been"patented, 1 4 . (1 promises to be most valuable."—Court Journal, August ' l B6O. "A surpr!sing novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth "he gum by a patented principle, which secures the most itertect aid, combined with the greatest ease and agreeable DPearance."—Morning Advertiser, August 9, 1860. Decayed teeth stopped, &c. Terms strictly moderate. 8 . Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. RIZE MFI) A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. I' ItANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &0., &0., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) t Jurors' Report on Wax and Chur c h C andles, in 1862, p; l °' l lles to !he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' 1,4 distinct 1, 1- titer an d Co., uisheond D the subject in of a letter addressed t o F rannie AX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says bare fortnd them fnily critic) to tho relornmenflation You gave them, and can sincerely, in art urn, I cona_ them to the clergy for the use of the al" 0 1 . ''I st quality, with fatted Wicks, patented.. Ss, sd. per lb. alnary quality .. •• • • • • • • , s. Od. per lb. N 'V EGETABLE C2LNDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. ee quality •• • • .. Is. sd. per lb 1 1 1 1 ?„TI quality 1 s. 3d. per lb. quality Is. ld. per lb. l age paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— h„, , Kensington (Established 1730). far Establishment in England for the Manufacture cf Wa2C Candles for the use of the Altar, N°. 22,625. BELFOREST, the NEW NOVEL, by the Author of " Meadowleig,h," " The Ladies of Bever hollow," Arc., is Now Ready at all Libraries and Book sellers, in 2 vols., post Bvo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. rui FIE NEW NOVEL—LYNN of the CRAGGS A. by CHARLOTTE SMITH, 3 volumes, may be obta'ned al all the Libraries. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 14, Ludgate. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE for JANUARY e fntains :—The Nile Basin—Fast Mid night—Woodbury- A mere Question of Handwriting— Strathmore—loarewell to France—A Pis t to the Victoria Falls-1 he Berah —A Night on Knockmeledown Mountain— Political Sayings and Doinzs. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. BENTLEYS MISCELLANY for JANUARY contains :—The House of Sevea Chimneys : a Tale of Madri.i, by Wiliam Harrison Ainsworth—The Summer Tour of Signor Tomkins—petticoat Yankeedom—Beyoncl the bail—Philosopher with the roolly,c e—Catharine Cor naro—The Wonderful Image of Matonzinhos—Two Days in Bat,via—John Leech and William Makepeace Thackeray— The Future of Italy. Chapman and Hall, 103, Piccadilly. CITY SHOW -ROOMS rou GLASS AND CHINA, 117, HOU.NDSDITCIL DEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLA S S , Cut and Engraved. of the choicest designs. R EFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT, and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. REFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS, and Flower Vases for the present season. DEIFIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS for the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver. DEFRIES, and SONS' CHANDELIERS, in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles C- EFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS . in Crystal, In the Venetian and Grecian designs, for India. R EFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS in Lamps for India. DEFRIES and SONS' WALL. LIGHT Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered). PEFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB, Mess, and Genus' Furnishing Orders of China, Glass, DEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS with Pattern Books and Special Designs. DEFRIES and SONS have just added Five f l y • New Show -Rooms to their extensive Manufactory ;hey have now on show the largest assortment in the world the above goods of their cwn manufacture. . MANUFACTORY AND SRO W-ROOMS, 147, Houndsditch. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is appled. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, ls. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR. -248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently- Ladles' H a i r from 7s . 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss. The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d, or sent free for 51 stamps. It is most easy of use. -nrAIR DESTROYER -248, High Holbcrn, London. —ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. Is. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which epeedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent tree for 54 stamps.—ALL.. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. Essay 3n Hair, id. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the ski n are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEG E TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &c. 2s. gd.; by past for 40 st ,mps. —A LEX. ROSS, 248, Lligh Holbor,', London. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, l s.; sent for 14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. (Id., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transeendeni; complexion, 48., or 0) stamps. 'Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 51 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218, High lioUiorn, London. O RNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and eAegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her ilajesty, 149. Stand, W.C., Lonaon. . . . - Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study o f MINERALOGY, CON-- CHOLOGY, tnd GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE ft &LOG Y is given by Mr. TENNANr, at 149, Strand.. W.C. NoTniNo IMPOSSIBLE.—.The greatest and -c most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, Kingourt, Lombard street, London, Peri u mors t o her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at what age. The Aqua Amai ells has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in halt bottles, les. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.--Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. `cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, dizzine6s of the eyes, &o. For habitual 'ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera 'ion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Bold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine arc a square green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. - nINNEF ORD' S PURE FLUID M AGNESIA AL" has been, during thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universally accepted by the blic, as the Best Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Ileartbyrn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more esp:cially for Ladies and Children. Combined with the Accidulated Lemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient quail ies are much increased. During Hot Seasons. and, above all, in Hot Climates, the regular use of this sim ple and elegant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and purity) by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond- street, London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. T HE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION, Limited. Capital subscribed, £5,00O3(00. Paid up, X..502,G00. DIRECTORS. JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. Xenophon Ball!, Esq. I Charles Belson, Esq, E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Maophers)n, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. James Dickson, Esq. W. Scholefield, Esq„ M.P. P. D. Hadow, Esq. Sir S. 0. Scott, hart. J. O. Hanson, Esq. 11 . D. Seymour, Esq., M.P. W. El. Harford, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. P. Holroyd, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, ES I. J. G. Homere, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston. . M. Zarin, Esq. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Co., and Messrs. Edwards and Co. The Association receives money on deposit for fixed periods. Makes advances on approved securities. Negotiates Loans, and undertakes General Financial Busi ness. W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. Crosby House, 06, Bishopg - ,ate-street Within. [101( A th L e FREE immediate H vic O in S i r y l o rf f t A h L e Gl. G ea r t a N y o ' B r - t i h n e n r n - r n o a d , Rail way Terminus, Ring's-cross. Patron—rlcr Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—Ms Royal Highness the Prince of IVA LE E , ,K.G President 7 Ll is Grace the Duke of BUCCLHUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. The numerous and urgent appeals of the si:•k poor for ad missi.n compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obli , ed t , ) treat as out-patients many distressing cases which. with more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of the hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legactes ' which are received by the Treasurer, Ed war d M ast crruan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries an d Co. ; Ranso m an d Co. • Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Gi yn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; tlasterman and Co. ; I. Darned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. BTA,NFORD 8, SMITE Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNEsDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1864. 114 EMF ER ! WE WAIT SUPPER _LC FOR YOU, after the Pantomime, at E VANS'. Fail not! ETINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. CDGNAO BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISII WHISKY rivals the finest ERRNCH BRANDY, It ij Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 38. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. 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The various Tables, some of which are peculiar to this Com pany, have been studiously adapted to the requirements of every class of-Assurers. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. The l'Ope's Encylical Letter. ROME, Dec. 21. The following is the full text of the Pope's En. cyclical Letter : " To our venerable brethren, all the patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and bishops, in communion with the Apostolic See, we, Pius IX., Pope, send greeting and our apostolic blessing. " You know, venerable brethren, with what care, what pastoral vigilance the Roman pontiffs, our predecessors, fulfilling the charge intrusted to them by our Lord Jesus Christ himself in the person of the blessed Peter, chief of the apostles, have un failingly observed their duty in providing for the sheep and the lambs, in assiduously nourishing the flock of the Lord with the words of faith, in imbuing them with salutary doctrine, and in turLir g them away from poisoned pastures. All this is known to you, and you have appreciated it; and certainly our predtcessory, in effirming and in vindicating the august Catholic faith, truth, and justice, were never animated in their case for the salvation of souls by a more earnest desire than that of extin• guisbing and condemning by their letters and their constitutions all the heresies and errors which as enemies of our Divine faith, of the doctrines of the Catholic Church, of the purity of morals, end of the wernalisalvation of man, have frequently excited serious storms and precipitated civil and Christian s - ciety into the most deplorable misfortunes. For this .reason our predecessors have opposed themselve with vigorous energy to the criminal enterprises of those wicked men, who, spreading their disturbing opinions like the waves of a raging sea, and promis ing liberty when they are slaves to corruption, en deavour by their prnicious writings to overturn the foundations of the Christian Catholic religion snd of civil Keit ty ; to eh stroy all virtue and jus tice; to deprave all minds sod hearts; to turn away simple minds, and especially those of inexperienced youth, from the healthy discipline of morals; to corrupt it miserably ; to draw it into the meshes of error ; and, finally, to tear it from the bosom of the Catholic Church. "Bat, as you are aware, venerable brethren, we had ec.reesty been raised to the chair of St. Peter, utove our merits, by the mysterious design of Divine Providence, than seeing with the most profound grief of our soul the horrible storm excited by evil doctrines and the very grave and deplorable injury caused specially by so many errors to Chris• thin people, in accordance with the duty of our apostolic ministry, and following in the glorious footsteps of our predecessors, we raised our voice and by the publication of several encyclicals, consis , torial letters and allocutions, and other apostolical letters, we have condemned the principal errors of our sad age, reanimated your utmost episcopal • " vigilance, warned and exhorted upon various occa sions all our dear children in the Catholic Church to repel and absolutely avoid the contagion of so horrible a plague. More especially in our first ency clical of the 9th of November, 1846, addressed to you, and in our two allocutions of the 9th of Decem ber, 1854, and the 9th of June, 1862, to the Consiss tories, we condemned the monstrous opinions which particularly predominates in the present day, to the great prejudice of souls, and to the detriment of civil society—doctrines which not cnly attack the Catholic Church, her salutary instruction, and her venerable rights, but also the natural unalterable law inscribed by God upon the heart of man—that of sound reason, "But, although we have not hitherto omitted to proscribe and reprove the principal errors of this kind, yet the cause of the Catholic Church, the safety of the souls which have been confided to us, and the wellbeing of human society itself absolutely demand that we should again exercise our pastoral solicitude to destroy new opinions, which spring out of these same errors as from so many sources. These false and perverse opinions are the more detestable as they especially tend to shackle and turn aside the salutary force that the Catholic Church, by the example of her Divine author and his order, ought freely to exercise until the end of time, not only with regard to each individual man, but with re gard to nations, peoples, and their rulers, and to destroy that agreement and concord between the priesthood and the Government which have always existed for the happiness and security of reli gious and civil society. For as you are well aware, venerable brethren, there are a great number of men in the present day who, applying to civil society the impious and absurd principle of natu ralism, as it is called, dare to teach that the perfect right of public society and civil progress absolutely require a condition of human society constituted and governed withcut regard to all considerations of religion, as if it had no existence, or at least without making any true distinction between true religion and heresy. And, contrary to the teach ing of the Holy Scriptures, of the Church, and of the Fathers, they do not hesitate to affirm 'that the best condition of society is that in which the power of the laity is not compelled to inflict the penalties of law upon violators of the Catholic re• ligion unless required by the considerations of pub• tic safety.' Actuated byan idea of social government so absolutely false, they do not hesitate further to propagate the erroneous opinion, very hurtful to the safety of the Catholic Church, and of souls, and termed delirium by our predecessor, Gregory XVI., of excellent memory—viz., ' liberty of con science and of worship is the right of every man— a right which ought to be proc g. , imed and estabiished by law in every well constituted State, and that citiz, , na are entitled to rink° known and declare, with a liberty which neither the ecclesiastical nor the civil authority can limit, their convictions, of whatever kind, either by word of mouth or through the press, or by other means. Bat, in making these rash assertions, they do not reflect, they do not consider that they preach the liberty of perdition (St. Augustine, Epistle 105, al. 166), and that, It it is always free to human conviction to discuss, men will never be wanting who dare to struggle against the truth, and to rely upon the loplacity of human eviedow, when we know by the example . of Our Lord Jesus Christ how faith and Christian sa gacity ought to avoid this very culpable vanity (St Leon, Epistle 164, al. 133, see. 2, 8011. ad.) " Since also religion has been banished from civil Government ; since the doctrine and authority of Divine revelation have been repudiated, the idea intimately connected therewith of justice and human right is obscured by darkness and lost sight of, and in place of true justice and legitimate right brute force is substituted, which has permitted some— entirely oblivious of the plainest principles of sound reason, to dare to proclaim 'that the will of the people, manifested by what is called public opinion or by other means, constitutes a supreme law supee rior to all Divine and human right—and that ac complished facts in political affairs, by the mere fact of their having been accomplished, have the force of law.' But who does not perfectly see and under• stand that human society, released from the ties of religion and true justice, can have no other object than to amass riches and can follow no other law in its actions than the indomitable wickedness of a heart given up to pleasure and interest ? " For this reason also these same men persecute with so relentless a hatred the religious orders who have deserved so well of religion, civil society, and letters ; they loudly declare that the orders have no right to exist, and, in so doing, make common cause with the falsehoods of the heretics; for, as taught by our predecessor of illustrious memory, Pius VI., 'the abolition of religious houses injures the state of public profession audiiereouttaryto the counsels of the Gospel injures a mode Of life recommended by the Church and in conformity with the aposto lical doctrine; does wrong to the celebated founders whom we veaerate upon the altar, and who consti tuted these societies under the inspiration of God.' (Epistle to Cardinal do la Rochefaucauld, March 10, 1791.) "In their impiety these same persons pretend that citizens and the Church should be deprived of the opportunity of openly receiving alms from Christian charity,' and that the law forbidding 'servile labour on account of Divine worship' upon certain fixed days should be abrogated, upon the fallacious pretext that this opportunity and this law are contrary to the principles of political economy. Not content with eradicating religion from public society, they desire further to banish it from families and private life. Teaching and profess ing those most fatal errors of Socialism and Com munism, they declare that domestic society or the entire family derives its right of existence solely from civil law, whence it is to be concluded that from civil law descend all the rights of parents over their children, and, above all, the right of instructing and educating them.' By such ime pious opinions and machinations do these false spirits endeavour to eliminate the salutary teaching and influence of the Catholic Church from the instruc tion and education of youth, and to infect and mise rably deprave by their pernicious errors and their vices the tender and pliant minds of youth. All those who endeavour to trouble sacred and public things, to destroy the good order of society, and to annihilate all Divine and human rights have always concentred their criminal schemes, attention, and efforts upon the manner in which they might, above all, deprave and delude unthinking youth, as we have already shown.- It is upon the corruption of youth that they place all their hopes. Thus they never cease to attack the clergy, from whom have descended to us in so authentic a manner the most certain records of history, and by whom such con siderable benefit has been bestowed in abundance upon Christian and civil society and upon letters. They assail them in every shape, going so far as to say of the clergy in general,' that, being the enemies of the useful sciences, of progress, and of civilisa tion, they ought to be deptived of the charge of in structing and educating youth.' " Others, taking up wicked errors many times condemned, presume, with notorious impudence, to oubmit the authority of the Church and of this Apostolic See, conferred upon it by God himself, to the judgment of civil authority, and to deny all the rights of this same Church and this See with regard to exterior order. " They do not blush to affirm 'that the laws of the Church do not bind the conscience it they are not promulgated by the civil power; that the acts and decrees of the Roman Pontiffs concerning religion and the Church require the sanction and approbation, or at least the assent of the civil power; and that the Apostolic Constitutions condemning secret societies, whether these exact or do not exact an oath of secrecy, and branding with anathema their secretaries and promoters, have no force in those regions of the world where these associations are tolerated by the civil Govern ment,' It is likewise affirmed that the excommunications launched by the Council of Trent and the Roman Pontiffs against those who invade the possessions of the Church, and usurp its rights, seek, in confounding the spiritual and tem poral orders, to attain solely a terrestrial object; that the Church can decide nothing which may bind the consciences of the faithful in a temporal order of things ; that the law of the Church does not demand that violations of sacred laws should be punished by temporal penalties; and that it is in accordance with sacred theology and the principles of public law to claim for the civil Government the pro perty piousp oss e s e s s e t d a b b l i y s h the e churches , ntestablishments,' the religious orders, and other " And they have no shame in avowing openly and pub licly the thesis, the principle of heretics from whom ema nated so many errors and perverse opinions. They say that the ecclesiastical power is not of right divine, distinct and independent ,from the civil power, and that no distinction, no independence of this kind can be maiotained without the Church invading and usurping the essential rights of the civil power.' Neither can we pass over in silence the au dacity of those who, insulting sound doctrines, assert that 'the judgments and decrees of the Holy See, whose object is declared to concern the general welfare of the Church, its right, and its discipline; do not claim the acquiescence and obedience under pain of sin and loss of the Catholic pro fession, if they do not treat of the dogmas of faith and manners.' " How contrary is this doctrine to the Catholic dogma of the full power divinely given to the Sovereign Pontiff by our Lord Jesus Christ, to guide, supervise, and govern the Universal Church, no one can fail to see and understand clearly and evidently. "Amid so great a perversity of depraved opinions, we, remembering our Apostolic duty, and solicitous before all things for our most holy religion, for sound doctrine, for the salvation of the souls confided to us, and for the welfare of human society itself, have considered the moment oppor tune to raise anew our Apostolic voice, and therefore do we condemn and prescribe generally and particularly all the evil opinions and doctrines specially mentioned in this letter, and we wish that they may be held as rebuked, proscribed, and condemned by all the children of the Catholio Church. "But you know further, venerable brothers, that in our time insulters of every truth and of all justice and violent enemies of our religion have spread abroad other impious doctrines by means of pestilent books, pamphlets, and journals which, distributed over the surface of the earth, deceive the people and wickedly lie. You are not ignorant that in our day men are found whe, animated and excited by the spirit of Satan, have arrived at that excess of impiety as not to fear to deny our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, and to attack his divinity with scandalous persistence. We can not abstain from awarding you well-merited eulogies, vene rable brothers, for all the care and zeal with which you have raised your episcopal voice against so great an impiety, "In the present letter, therefore, we speak to you with all our heart, to you who, called to partake our cares, are our greatest support in the midst of our very great grief, oar joy, and our consolation by reason of the excellent piety of which you give proof in maintaining religion, and the marvellous love, faith, and discipline with which, united by the strangest and most affectionate ties to us and this Apos tolic See, you strive to valiantly and accurately fulfil your grave episcopal ministry. We ought then to expect from your excellent pastoral zeal that, taking the sword of the Spirit, that is to say, the Word of God, and strengthened by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, you will watch with redoubled care that the faithful committed to your charge ' abstain from evil pasturage, which Jesus Christ does not cultivate because it was not sown by his Father.' (St. Ignac. Mad. Philadelph. St. Lent, Epist. 156, al. 125). Never cease, then, to inculcate in the faithful that all true felicity proceeds for the men of our august religion from doctrine and practice, and that that people is happy who has the Lord with them (Psalm 143). Teach that kingdoms rest upon thefoundation of the faith (St Celest. lett. 22 au Syn. d'Eph), and that nothing is so mortal, so prompt to engender every ill, so exposed to danger for those who think that it can alone suffice, as the free will which we received at birth, if we ask nothing further from the Lord—that is to say, if, forgetting our Author, we abjure His power to show that we are free.' And do not omit to teach that the Royal power has been established not only to exercise the govern ment of the world, but above all for the protection of the Church (St. Lent. Epist., 156 al 125), and that there is nothing more profitable and more glorious for the Sove reigns of States and Kings than to leave the Catholic Church to exercise its laws, and not to permit any to attack its liberty; as our most wise and courageous predecessor, St. Felix, wrote to the Emperor Zenon, 'lt is certain that it is advantageous for Sovereigns, when the cause of God is in question, to subn it their royal will according to the established rules to the priests of Jesus Christ, and not to impose their will upon them.' (Pius VII. 's Epist., Encyc. Diu, satis, 15th of May, 1800.) " It is always, but especially at present, your duty, ve nerable brothers, in the midst of the numerous calamities of the Church and of civil society, in view of the terrible con spiracy of our adversaries against the Catholic Church and our Apostolic See, and the great accumulation of errors, it is your duty, I say before all, to go with faith to the Throne of Grace to obtain mercy and find fitting succour. We have therefore judged the moment to have come to excite the piety of all the faithful in order that, with us and with you all, they may pray without ceasing to the Father, supplicating and beseeching Him fervently and humbly for instruction and mercy, in order also that in the plenitude of their faith they may seek refuge in our Lord Jesus Christ who has redeemed us with His divine blood, that by their multiplied efforts they may obtain from that burning heart, victim of its charity for us, the gift of drawing all by the bonds of His love, of inspiring all seen inflamed by Hisholy love with the desire of living according to His heart, pleas ing Gud in all things, and fruitful in all good works. " But, as there is no doubt that the prayers most agree able to God are those of the men who approach Him with a heart pure from all stain, we have thought it good to open to Christians, with a truly apostolic liberality, the Heavenly freasurespf the Church confided to our dispen sation, so that ttie faithful, 'store strongly drawn towards true piety and.fnrified froin the stain of fheir,sins by_the offernmtfniiteimiiiractinly prayers to God and obtain His mercy and grace. "By these letters emanating from our apostolic autho rity, we grant to all and each of the faithful of both sexes throughout the universe a plenary indulgence during one month up to the end of the year 1865 and not longer, to be carried into effect by you, venerable brethren, and the other legitimate ordinaries, in the form and manner laid down at the commencement of our Sovereign Pontificate by our apostolical letters issued as a brief upon the 20th Novem ber, 1846, and sent to the whole ep'scopate of the world, commencing with the words, 'Arcano alivince Providentim consilio,' and with the faculties given by us in those same letters. We desire, however, that all the prescriptions of our letters shall be observed, saving the exceptions wa have declared admissible. We have come to this determination notwithstanding all which might be ordered to the contrary by special and individual mention, and which might be worthy of departure from that decision—but, in order that every hesitation and difficulty should be removed, we have ordered that a copy of our letter should be again forwarded to you. " Let us implore, venerable brethren, from the bottom of our hearts, and with all our souls, for the mercy of God. He has encouraged us to do so by saying—" I will not withdraw my mercy from them.' Let us ask and we shall receive; and if there is slowness or delay in its recep tion, because we have gravely offended, let us knock, be- cause lie opens to those who knock, for prayers, groans, and tears, by means of which we must persist and remain, kacck at the door, &c. (St. Cyprian, Epistle 11.) But, in order that God may accede more easily to our prayers, and our wishes, and to these of all his faithful servants, let us employ in all confidence as our mediatrix with Him the Virgin Mary, who has destroyed all here. sies throughout the world, and who, the well-beloved Mother of us all, is very gracious . . and full of mercy . , . allows herself to be touched by all, shows herself very clement towards all, and takes under her pitying care all our miseries with unlimited affection' (St. Bernard, Gerus de duodecim prerogativis B.M.V. en verbis Apoca lypti), and who, ' sitting as queen upon the right hand of her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in a golden vestment shining with various adornments, knows nothing which she cannot obtain from the Sovereign Master. Let us implore also the intervention of the blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles, and of his co-Apostle Paul, and all those Saints of Heaven, who, having already become the f r i en d s o f God, have been admitted into the celestial kingdom, where they are crowned and bear palms, and who, henceforth certain of immortality, are entirely devoted to our salvation, "Lastly, let us ask of God from the bottom of our heart ;he abundance of all his cola:Alai benefits for you. We our selves bestow upon you, venerable brethren, and upon all clerks and faithful of the laity committed to your care, our apostolic benediction from the most loving depths of our heart, in token of our charity towards you.: " PIUS IX, Pope. " Given at St. Peter's in Rome, the Bth of December, 1864, the tenth anniversary of the definition cf the dogma o! the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God." Federal Treatment of Southern Prisoners Mr. S. Phillips Day, in a letter to a contempo rary, writes—Mr. Adams, the (soscalled) United States Minister to this country, observes in his first note to Lord Wharncliffe, just made public:—" am very sure that it has never been the desire of my Government to treat with unnecessary or vin dictive severity any of the misguided individuals, parties in this deplorable rebellion, who have fallen into their hands in the regular course of war." Let me ask, can it be really possible that Mr Adams puts a grammatical, and not a diplomatic, construction upon the sentiment he utters, or that he is positively, and not affectedly, ignorant of the wide-spread opinion to the contrary which obtains? an opinion as rife throughout the Continent as in Great Britain. While in the Northern States and in Canada, from which I have for the third time just returned, I have fallen in with many soldiers who have been incarcerated in Federal bastiles for long and short periods. They have repeated to me the same un varying tale of cruelty and inhumanity. Some have actually wept in relating their sufferings and the refinement of torture to which it was their misfor- tune to have been subjected. I have now before me a short autobiographical sketch of each of the St. Aiban's raiders, handed to me by the prig soners upon my last visit to them in Montreal gaol. Several of these men had been captured "in the regular course of war," and incarce rated in Fort Warren, Camp Chase, and that worst of Yankee prisons, Camp Douglas, Illinois. The tale they severally tell is sickening and heart. rending. It irrefragably demonstrates that the mis• guided individuals to whom Mr Adams so patheti• tally refers, have been treated both with unneces. sary and vindictive severity. Unfortunately what is true of some of the St. Alban's raiders is likewise true of many hundreds of their fellow Confederates and captives. In July, 1863, Lieut. B. Young, of Gen. Morgan's staff, was captured with some of his comrades. Upon being transferred from Camp Chase to Camp Douglas,Young was confined with 20 other Southerners in an iron cell within a dungeon. The dimensions of the cell were but Bft. by 10ft. Herein he was incarcerated for three weeks, fed upon bad bread and water and salt meat, and deprived of everything that could conduce to comfort, cleanli• ness, and deoency. He thus recounts his first (x. periences—" In a few hours after I was shut up here the terrible agonies incidental to suffocation began to make their appearance. A weight of a thousand pounds seemed to crush my breast, and I gasped as a fish when removed from its native ele ment." Another raider (likewise one of Gen. Mor gan's men) was imprisoned for seven months in Camp Morton. This he describes as " a tempo rary hell, where I was subjected, together with five hundred of my fellow soldiers, to every nefarious a rocity and indignity which the North. ern Vandals are ever ready to invent. 0 ;vin,g to the malicious treatment I received, and when death seemed inevitable, I determined upon a plan whereby I should escape from the thraldom of tyrants. I did not dread the hPzard, for speedy death was far preferable to waning life in such a place." This is the general burden of every statement made to me by Southern prisoners of war who b . id (ff:?cted their escape by one stratagem or another. And I must say that I reirived implicitly their startling accounts of the worse than heathenish barbarities and cruel bondage which they had undergone; barbarities unrelieved by even the faintest semblance of mercy, and a bitter b'9t3age unsweetened bt a word or look of human pity. Possibly the Northern treatment of Confederate prisoners has changed for the better since 1663. Charity would have caused me to hope that such a long-delayed consummation had at length taken place, but for the instructions . ,received from Mr. PR1CE...... ...4d. STAMPED'....Sd. Seward by the American Minister in London, de. clining, in no very diplomatic or polite language, to allow the funds raised in Liverpool to be appro priated to the relief of Southern prisoners in the -Federal States. That act speaks volumes. It clearly indicates that no sympathy exists Ly the captors for the captured; that charity towards a suffering enemy (and even the exercise of it by neutral na tions) is no part of American Christianity ; and, finally, that there is no desire to abate one jot or tittle of the misery arid wretchedness which )se festering, foul dungeons of the North so prolifi—ly engender. The Last Man. At the last ball at Government•house, Hobart Town, there appeared:the last male aboriginal in habitant of Tasmania. He was accompanied by three aboriginal women, the sole living representa tives of the race beside himself, but not of such an age or such an appearance as to justify the expeea tation of any future addition to their number. We may, therefore, look upon this individual not only as the last man of his race in esse, but also in posse. In this there is something very serious, if not very affecting. What was to have exalted them has intifictio.Thm j tended to their debasement. Wh a t was to h ave been a source of prolong e d lif e t o t h em as a people has led to their speedier extin c ti on . F rom the i r first contact with th e w hit es until their anal kept, , . __ _ _ _ _____ . . . cation - tit too late to arrest the progress in that direction. It is not in human nature to be recuperative beyond a certain point. The number of the aborigines in the first decade of the present century has been vari ously estimated—by some 7,000, by others at 4,000 to 5,000 only. In the judgment of charity, and in consideration of the fact that we are now in the pre sence of the last man, let us take them at the smaller of these two numbers. The gulf to be bridged over is still wide enough. At first the aboriginal inhabi tants of Tasmania are said to have been harmless, but this did not protect them from maltreatment by the whites. So early as 1810, Governor Collins had to complain of this, and issued an order to the effect that any person detected in firing wantonly on the natives, or murdering them in cold blood, should suffer the e eetreme penalties of the law. And yet lesser offences against them were very leniently dealt with during Governor Collins's time. One man, for instance, was merely flogged for exposing the ears of a boy he had mutilated, and another for cutting off the little finger of a native and using it as a tobacco-stopper. Colonel Davey and Colonel Sorel], Governor Collins's successors, after a brief interval, the former from 1813 to 1817, and the latter from 1817 to 1824, seem to have had the same ground of complaint against the whites for their maltreatment of the natives, and during their governorships we meet with many a sad and mourn ful tale, In Governor Davey's time the practice of firing on the natives was common, and in Governor Sorell's the children of the natives were stolen with impunity, and their wozr.en treated most shamefully. One ruffian boasted of having cap tured a native woman, whose husband he had killed, and of having strung the bleeding head to her neck, and driven her before him as his prize. On Colonel Arthur's assumption of the office of Go. vernor in 1824, things were not much better. They were, in fact, if anything, rather worse, and so they continued for a time. We do not wish to zonceal the fact that the natives had for some years past been the perpetrators of the most astounding atrocities. That is admitted on all hands. But most of these atrocities were to be traced to a spirit of retaliation and revenge. The natives were goaded to mednLss by the treatment they met with. And though we sometimes speak of savage life with feelings bor• daring on contempt, it is quite passible for born bred savages to be made worse than savages by tt ose who boast of an advanced civilisation. In their attempts to exorcise the demon of savage life, they may make the savage twofold more a child of hell than he was before. Things had come to such a pass on both sides as to render it necessary that some decided step should be taken on the part of the Government and the settlers; and this lands us in that portion of the history of the decadence of this unfortunate race which partakes almost of the character of the ludicrous. Governor Arthur conceived the bold design of making it a sine qua non that his intern.' tion should be carefully concealed from them. This is not in accordanee with the usages of modern warfare. But then they were savages, and were to be captured, and not' slain, if the latter could be avoided. The plea for this war was that all attempts to "tame," not civilize them, had failed, and that there was no safety for life or property so long as they were allowed . to be at large. Ail the settlers were required to turn out on the Ist of October, 1830, and every part of the island was invested. The force on our side consisted of nearly 5,000 men, well armed, and that of the natives of not more than 1,500 to 2,000 including their women and children, with no other arms than their spears and waddles, To so small a number had the natives now been reduced. Governor Arthur put on a face of becoming gravity for the campaign, and the parties engaged in it dignified it with the name of the " black war." The natives were, if possible, to have been driven into Tasman's Peninsula en masse. But the thing turned out a complete failure. Hundreds of recruits crawled home before the campaign was half over, although it did not last mach more than a month, and the Governor himself was " lost three days in Paradise" when his services were most needed. At length it has to be given up, with two natives cap.' tared and one soldier wounded as its only results. Nothing dismayed,however, it was now determined to effect by strategy what could not be done in the open field, and a very fitting agent for this was found in the person of Mr ltobinson,who was after ward appointed to the office of Protector of Abori gines. There are various opinions as to the fitness of this gentleman for his office, but there can be no doubt whatever as to his having been a man of great daring, or as to his success in carrying out the views of the Government of the day. He was ap. pointed in 1829 to take charge of some natives in Bruni Island, then captured, and from them he ac quired a partial knowledge of the native language. His business after the black war was over was to take them by guile—to capture them, as he expressed it, "by the withdrawal of intimidation and the employment of persuasion only ;" and, whether he acted up to this system or not throughout, he cer tainly succeeded to admiration. At this work he continued for a number of years, and the last batch were captured, after he hid left the colony, at Cir cular Head, and were conveyed to Flinders' Island the place that had been determined upon in the in terim for the reception of the rest, and where they were already provided for by the Government. As to the policy of their being cooped in a small island serious doubts were entertained from the first, and it was confidently asserted by many, as the event has proved, that that island would shortly be their grave. But :t is no part of our object on the pre sent occasion to discuss the policy of the conduct of the Government. As we started, so we desire to close, with a bare reference the fact that the Tasmanian natives, ns a race, are now virtually ex tinct. There is only ono man left. With whom does the blame of this rest ? Most assuredly, not altogether with the natives themselves. No one can say with truth that they were net as much sinned against as sinning in the disasters that befell them. But they are gone, and their extinction, as a race, was probably as inevitable as it is inscrutable. A s savages they were found, as savaged they lived, and as savages they perished ! Such an event is de serving of some notioe.—liobart Town :lercury. EWSpApv The Schleswig-Ilolstein • An address has been drawn u party in the Duchies and forwardecttio llrsget Bismarck and Count MensdorffsPouilly, with the request that those Ministers will be pleased to lay it before the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria respectively, and support it with their in fluence. The document is as follows : "To his Majesty the Emperor of Austria Francis Joseph I. To his Majesty the King of Prussia William I. "Most Gracious Emperor,—Most Gracious King, —After the peace of the 30th October last was cone eluded and ratified by all concerned, the undersigned inhabitant s o f the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein agreed to rep resent to your Majesties most respect fully the expression of their wishes with regard to the future form of the public relations of the said Duchies. As we have hailed with joy the arrival of the long-desired moment in which it has pleased your Majesties to permit the uoity of the adminis tration of the Duchies of Schleswig-Ilelstein to come into existence under your moat gracious dominion, we hope for the lasting grant of such unity by the reception of Schleswig into the Germanic Cenfederas tion. We surrender ourselves further, with the most implicit confidence, to the hope that your Majesties will make arrangements calculated per manently to secure the governmental unity of the Duchies, and to afford them the best pledge for the blessings of external peace. " For this purpose we consider essential 1. That an impartial legal examination of the question, who is entitled to the succession in the sovereignty over the Duchies of Schleswig.Holsteie, should be en tered upon ; and 2. That the result of such exami nation shall be communicated in a convincing manner to a Schleswig-Holstein Assembly of Estates, called together according to legal precedent. "Should the examination lead to the result that a certain prince has an incorstr,ovible tight teletalee,... ii:Vaesfesiee - in - bsseheisereis, stAh'in all parte of the same, we may expect, from your Majesty's love of justice, that you will graciously make over to this prince the Government of the Duchies. We rely also upon the wise care of your Majesties in case it should appear that an application of the principles of hereditary right would lead to a severance of the Duchies. Claims to parts can constitute no right to the indivisible whole. Such claims must give place to considerations for the prosperity of the country. These require the utmost possible security by sufficient conditions of strength, which your Majesties will not be disposed to withhold from the Duchies. It is, however, our most profound con viction that they cannot be better guaranteed than by the closest connection with one of the great Ger. man Powers, and with the Prussian monarchy in especial, as the nearest is position. In expressing this view we proceed with full assurance, from the expectation that the Duchies will, under all circuit'. stances, receive an independence with regard to in. ternal affairs corresponding to their peculiar re. quiremente. "We request your Majesties to allow yourselves, in your most gracious resolutions for the welfare of the Duchies, to be guided by these considerations, and in such case to forward a communication to the united Assembly of Estates of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. Your 31;josties will thereby place the crown upon the work of peace, and bind to everlasting gratitude the Duchies thus perma nently secured in their united existence. " Schleswig-Holstein, Dec. 1864." The signatures follow. Lost in the Snow. A very melancholy discovery was made last Wednesday, in a wood about two miles distant from 111 . ,j0r Gordon Duff's mansion of Drammuir. It appears that Major Duff and party were roe-h anting in this wood, which is not a very great distanee from the farms of Cacbenhead and Mains of Towie beg. A roe was observed to make cut of a copse, which occasioned a general cry to fire. Mr. Charles ( .3heyne, head gamckcepr to Major Duff, imme diately fired at the frightened animal. On turning rolled he stumbled upon something of a yielding nature, from which he had partially shaken eff the snow by the suddenness with which he had come in contact. The gamekeeper at once saw that ho had stumbled on the feet of a human body--the limbs having been divested of their snowy covering by his coming against them. The body was that of a woman rather under the middle stature (about sft, 3in.), and is supposed to be about forty years of age. The remains of this poor wanderer had evi. dently lain for three weeks or a month—at least such was the opinion of those who saw the body. Decomposition had not taken place to any great ex. tent, save on the feet, which, not being so thickly covered with snow as on other parts of the body, had begun to exhibit symptoms of decay. She was poorly clad, having only a winsey petticoat, stays laced in front, end en under garment on her body. This last mentioned article of apparel, as well as the checked "slop" lying beside her, afford some clue to the poor wan derer'a history. On these things were marked the letters " G. City P. 1i.," which, no doubt, mean the Glasgow City Poor House. We know not whether it is a practice with the Glasgow parochial authorities to allow the paupers to leave with the house clothes upon them ; if not, then it is certain that this woman, who has come to such an untimely end, must have left unknown to her legal guardians. Near the body was a small basket, with half an ounce of tobacco and an ounce of tea un• touched, just as they had been-carefully tied by the merchant who supplied them. The medical gentle.. men were most' careful in their examination, and the verdict which they eventually pronounced was Perished from exposure." The stomach was found quite empty, save a little water, and the digestive organs were in a very bad state. One or two people in the district remember a woman, attired in a similar beggar's garb, calling about three weeks previous, evidently making it her vocation to beg from door to door. Except some articles of attire however, little recognition could be made, as no one in the quarter can speak with any certainty of ever seeing the deceased before. It is the general impression that the poor woman had lost her way on that stormy Saturday about three weeks ago. She must have wandered on, in the teeth of the blinding storm, until, unconsciously, she entered the wood crowning the brow of a mountain to the northeast of Drummuir Castle. There, perhaps, in the vain endeavour to reach the open country, she had plunged deeper into the wood ; and, having wandered till benumbed, or unable, from want of sustenance, to proceed further, she had lain herself down under the branches of the yew tree—from whence her voice, however shrilly it might pierce the drifting storm, could reach no human ear—and there, alone and unseen, with. the cold snow gathering over and around her, the poor wanderer had passed away to another world. —lluntly Express. " BLOUNT TEMPEST." By the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew. 3 vole.—" The scene of this novel is laid in the neighbourhood of Lancaster, and the characters are mostly old Lancashire county families. The background of th e story is extremely well laid and described; evidently th e author knows every foot of ground he mentions. There is an immense amount of care an I painstaking evid en t throughout the work, and the story is interesting and full of incident. The book is well written, and the accounts of the various families and old family places are extremely well dcne. The picture of life at Ilanapton Court is very good, and there is an amusing accDunt of a Commemoration Day at Oxford."—Athomuin. SLAVERY IN CUBA.—" The inhabi:ants of Cuba," ' • n says the Opin?o --Tationa/e, "it is known, have for some t ime past manifested feelings favourable to the emancipation of the ncgroes. The administration of Spain is almost the only one that maintains the scourge cf slavery. We now learn from Cuba that a petition, signed by up-, wards of 100 planters, has been pit:seated to the Captain General Dulce, in which they call on him to obtain from the Queen of Spain the abolition of slavery in the island. General Duke replied that before he transmitted the wish of the petitioners to the Madrid Government he should wait to learn the result of the President's election in the United States, as that would decide the fate of slavery in the great American Republic. As Mr Lincoln has dcolartd strongly against slavery, the hope may be entertained that a condemnation Of the natitution may soon be pr; claimed in Cuba." uld led log in by of led 13g Ley